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L. H. HA'WES & A. KIMBALL. COLOR TICKET PRINTING MACHINE.

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LEWIS H. HAWES, or BROOKLYN, ANDALONZO KIMBALL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COLOR TICKET-PRINTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,621, dated June 10, 1890.

Application filed April 6, 1887- To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we,LEW1s H. HAWES and ALONZO KIMBALL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, and of the cityof New York, in the county and State of New York, respectively,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Color Ticket-Printing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to machines forprinting railroad or other tickets in colors; and it consists of certain novel combinations of parts,

tinuous strip of card-board to the printing mechanism, printing the tickets thereon in the desired colors, and properly cutting the tickets therefrom.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front view of a machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 represents a plan or top view thereof. Fig. 3 represents an end view of theink-fount and concomitants. Fig. 4 represents a like view of the feed-rollers and concomitants. Fig. 5 represents an end view of the machine. Fig.6 represents a rear View of a portion thereof. Fig. 7 represents a detail view of aportion thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. 7

The letter A indicates the machine-frame, consisting, essentially, of two standards and suitable braces.

B indicates a platen firmly secured in the upper part of said frame, and O a bed above the platen for receiving a chase with the proper type for printing the tickets. The bed (I is secured at its opposite ends to vertical slides C (Fig. 5 showing a side view,) which are fitted in suitable guideways O of the machine-frame, and the lower end of each of which is connected by a pitman C to a crank C on a shaft G which is geared with a driving-shaft C by suitable cog-Wheels to revolve therewith, so that a vertically-reciprocating motion is impartedto the bed from said crankshaft through the two cranks, the pitmen, and the slides.

The letter D indicates two levers supporting an inking-roller D, Figs. 1 and 2, for inking the type of the bed; E, Figs. 2 and 6, an

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said levers arevibrated by said pins of the two brackets traveling in the slots of the levers, thereby causing the inking-roller D to travel over the type. The ink-delivery roller E has its bearings in the machine-frame, and is geared with the driving-shaft (J by means of a belt E and pulleys E E mounted on said shaft and the roller-shaft, respectively, to receive a continuously-revolving motion. The location of said delivery-roller E is such in relation to the inking-roller D that in the rearward position of said inking-roller, and when the platen G is in an upper position, the inkin g-roller is in superficial contact with the delivery-roller, thus revolving therewith and receiving ink therefrom. The distributingroller e also has its bearing in the machineframe and is arranged in superficial contact with the ink-delivery roller E to revolve therewith, while it is provided at one end with a reverse screw-thread e, engaging with a forked key a 011 the machine-frame, so that as the distributing-roller revolves it receives also a longitudinally-reciprocating motion by the screw-thread traveling on said key, itthus operating to spread the ink on the deliveryroller.

The ink-fountain f is secured to the machine-frame adjacent to the ink delivery roller E, and the fountain-roller G is arranged within said fountain parallel to the deliveryroller. Said fountain-roller G is provided at one end with a ratchet-Wheel K, engaging with a sliding pawl L, which is fitted in ways L, Fig. 3, on the machine-frame in such position relatively to a cam L on the bed 0 that in the descent of the bed said cam comes in contact with the tail end of the pawl and displaces the latter, with the effect of imparting an intermittingly-revolving motionto said ratchet-wheel together with the fountainroller.

The ink-feed roller His mounted in two parallel arms II, fixed to a rock-shaft I1 which has its bearings in the machine-frame, and to which is also fixed a third arm II, lying in the path of a tappet I1 Fig. 3, on the bed 0, so that in the descent of the bed said tappet operates to vibrate the arms, and thereby shift said feed-roller from the delivery-roller E to the fountain-roller G, with the effect of taking ink from the fountain-roller and conveying it to the delivery-roller.

The ink-delivery roller E is divided transversely into sections, wit-h intervals between them, as shown in Figs. 2 and 6, and the inkfountain f is divided by suitable partitions f into compartments, one opposite to each section of the delivery-roller, so that if said compartments of the fountain are supplied with ink of different colors the same is conveyed to the corresponding roller-sections by the feed-roller II from the fountain-roller. The ink-distributing roller 6, also, is made in sections, one to each section of the deliveryroller E, as shown,the distributing-roller sec,- tions being, however, of less length than the delivery-roller sections, so that in said reciprocating motion of the distributing-roller its sections remain entirely within or between the edges of the proper delivery-roller sections.

At one or the receiving end of the machine are paper-feed rollers J one above the otherwhich are geared together by cog-wheels 'i, and one of which is provided with a ratchetwheel 11, engaging with a pawl t of an arm 1?, which is hung on the shaft of the proper feed-roller and connected by a link to one end of a lever t, having its fulcrum in a pivot on the machin e-frame and engagingat its other end with a stud t of the bed in such a manner that an intermittingly-revolvin g motion isimparted to said feed-rollers from the bed. The lower feed-roller J has fixed bearin gs, while the upper feed-roller has movable bearings, combined with an adjustable lever y, Fig. a, set screw '31, and springy for the adjustment of said upper roller in relation to the lower roller. At the end of the machine opposite to said feed-rollers J are vertical rotary knives m, fixed to asuitable shaft, which has its bearings in an extension M of the platen, and is geared with the driving-shaft O by a belt 'm, pulleys m m and suitable bevelwheels, as shown, to be operated from the driving-shaft. Said extension M of the platen carries an upright N, forming guideways for a vertical reciprocating knife N, which is in rear of said rotary knives, and is connected by a yoke N of card-board R is fed in between the feedrollers J and passes over the platen B under the bed C containing the type, it being advanced after each impression, and in the ascent of the bed to a distance equal to the size of the desired tickets, so that successive sections of the strip are successively printed with the different colors of ink in the inkfountthat is to say, in the first impression the first section of the strip receives one color and in the second impression the first section receives a second color, while the second section receives the first color, and so on until the different sections have received all the colors. After being printed the strip R passes under the rotary knives m and is cut or subdivided into narrower strips, and the latter are then cut by the vertical reciprocating knife N into tickets, or said rotating knives may be omitted and the strip left of normal width to be cut simply by the reciproeatin knife.

lVhen the rollers are divided into four sections, as shown herein, the first three sections are used for three different colors of ink and the fourth section is used for inking the type of a numbering-niacinne P, (shown in Fig. 1,) which may be of any suitable construction.

\Vhat we claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent. is-

1. In a machine for printing tickets in sections from a continuous strip and in different colors, the combination of a pair of feed-rollers, a reciprocating bed, an inking-roller, an ink-fountain having compartments to receive the different colors of ink, a fountain-roller, an ink-delivery roller constructed in sections, one to each compartment of the ink-fountain,

' an ink-distributing roller also constructed in sections, which are in contact with but of less length than the sections of said deliveryroller, an ink-feed roller operating to convey the ink from the fountain-roller to said delivery-roller, vibrating arms carrying said feed-roller, and actuating devices for said arms, all substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a machine for printing tickets in sections from a continuous strip, the combination of a vertically-reciproeating bed, a crankshaft carrying two cranks, pitmen connecting the bed with said cranks, an extended pivot on one of said pitmen, a vertically-reciprocating knife for cutting the tickets from said strips, and a yoke connecting the knife with said extended pivot of the pitman, substantiall y as and for the purpose described.

LEWIS II. IIAWES; ALONZO KIMBALL. Witnesses:

FRANCIS C. BOWEN, HENRY VALK.

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